Following the arrival of a press which is named a platen SB. It doesn’t look like a platen and can be named as the letterpress version of a lithographic printing press - Heidelberg Kord 64.
I am now 50 in 2014, married with one son who is 26 in 2014, doesn't seem that long since he was born. Unfortunately I have a condition / disability S.M.A. better known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which falls into the category of Muscular Dystrophy. This is a degenerative condition which as time goes by, the muscle wastage increases. A wheelchair is the final destination for me, although I do have a power chair, which I have to use when I am out and about. I do drive and the car is my only real comfort to enable me to go out.
I have to be careful with carving knives as I also have a blood disease, well two actually - Platelet Storage Pool disease and Von Willebrand disease. Both of these are a prolonged time of bleeding compared to someone who hasn't got the conditions. I try to be positive and when you look around then you realise that there are people far worse off, than me.
I was in printing and it was a heavy, manual job, involving running printing presses, handling very heavy sheets of paper.
Because of my disability, illness and chronic pain I had to stop working in 2002 at the age of 39. As such I can class myself as retired.
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